So $1.4m of those public dollars for these two cities to keep regular people (but not criminals) disarmed. That's not even including the legal fees to the SAF, etc. or the fees generated by the cities for their defense.

What an effective use of funds, eh? Not a bit of it would have been more useful towards better policing, education or food programs to name a few things. Noooooo. That would be silly.